Carbureter-feed.



PATENTBD Nov. 10, 1903.

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CARBURBTER FEED...

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Patented November 10, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOI-IN A. BOWER, OF NORTH CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, lASSIGNOR TO PRACTICAL GAS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, OF NORTH CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A COR- PORATION OF ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,439, dated November 10, 1903. Application nled December l 1902. Serial No. 134.714. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I,JOHN A.BOWER,a citizen of the United States, residing at North Chicago, in the county of Lake and State of Illi- 5 nois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Carbureter-Feeds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to storing and feeding oil to a carbureter for the purpose of manuxo facturing gas.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is a plan view of the various features which combine to illustrate my inven- 5 tion with certain parts shown in cross-section.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of a portion of the apparatus with parts shown in section and parts broken away. This section is supposed to be taken on a section-line drawn through Fig. l.,

zo lwith certain parts, such as the parts G and F, removed. Fig. 3 is a part section and part elevation View of the airometer and air-coudenser with parts broken away. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the oil-storage tank and connections. n 1

Like parts are indicated by the same letter in all the figures.

A represents the inclosng Wall of the building, A the foundation thereof, and A2 the 3o door.

B is the carbu reter, which I have shown in a cylindrical form. I do nothere show the Interior construction of the carbureter, as of course any desired form of carbureter can be employed.

B is an auxiliary tank connected at B2 and B3 with the carbureter B and provided with a oat B4 on the end of the rod B5.

B6 indicates a quantity of oil or like substance within the carbu reter and its auxiliary tank.

The oil-supply devices consist of an oilstorage tank consisting of connecting-pipes and pump and a gravity-tank.

C is theoil-storage tank, preferably located away from the main buildings and possibly underground. It is provided with a fillingopening C'.' From this tank and preferably opening from the bottom thereof leads the sup- 5o ply-pipe C2, which pipe is provided with two.

extensions-C3, containing a valve C5, and C, containing a valve C6. Beyond these two valves the two extensions are connected by the cross-pipe C7, between the two members i ofwhich is placed the pump CS. The eXtension C4 continues beyond tbe cross-pipe and opens into the carbureter B and is controlled by the valve C9. The extension C3 continues beyond the valve C5 and opens into the pipe C4 beyond the valve C9 and is controlled by 6o the valve C10. y The cross-pipe CT leads from its junction with the pipe Cs to the gravitytank C11. It is controlled bythe valve C12. By this construction it is possible by a proper manipulation of the valves to perform the following functions: first, to pump oil from the tank through the pipe C4, cross-pipe C7, pump C8, pipe C3 to pipe C4,and thence to carbureter; second, to pump oil from the oil-supply tank through pipe C4, cross-pipe C7, and extension 7o thereofl to the gravity-tank, and, third, to pump oil from the carbureter through pipe C4, the pipe C7, pipe C3, and pipe C2 back to the storage-tank. l

I have shown a portion of an air-treating system which is more fully described in my former application, Serial No. 121,640, filed AugustSO, 1902.

D represents an air-storage cylinder.

D is a pipe connected to the storage-tank 8o leading from an air pump or compressor. (Not shown.)

D2 is a valve controlling the pipe D.

D3 is a pipe which opens from within said tank and near the bottom thereof and is connected to an injector E, which injects air into the condenser F and thence through the pipe F into the airometer G. A pipe G opens from within the upper end of the airorneter and leads thence to the carbureter and opens 9o near the bottom thereof.

From the carbureter B leads the pipe H to the drier VI-I, which is preferably composed of the cylindrical shell, and when preferred diaphragm Hzfaud a drying material above the diaphragm H3. From this drier leads the pipe H4 to the distributing-mains.

I will now describe the several elements which combine to make up the gage-board.

.I is a board properly positioned in the opzoo erating-room. The rod B5 preferably passes upwardly through a tube J', being properly packed, and terminates in the pointer J2, associated with the scale J3, which scale is properlysupported on the board. Thus the height.

`a sight-feed glass J9, from which leads the pipe JW to the carbureter. Thus the oilcan be fed from the gravity-tank to the carbureter through the sight-feed, which will enablethe operator to gage the rapidity with which he is feeding.

J11 is an overflow-pipe which leads from the upper part of the gravity-tank to the gageboard. On the gage-board it is provided with a glass section JN, whence leads the pipe'J13 down to the carbureter.

It will be understood ot' course that I have shown various parts and features here which might be greatly changed and altered without departing from the spirit of lnyinvention. I have not attempted to describe in the minutest detail the dierent connections and adjustments, because they are subject to so much modification and are so-readily understood by those skilled in the art. I have endeavored in my drawings to furnish, as it were., a diagrammatic representation of my invention` and wish the drawings to be so taken and understood.

The use and operation of my invention are as follows: The carbureter is provided with a pipe which supplies it with air from the airometer. It is also provided with a pipe by which oil can in certain cases when desired bedirectly forced into it from the storage-tank. It also has associated with it a side or auX- iliary chamber connected at top and bottom and provided with an oil-inlet pipe which feeds to said chamber a continuous current of oil,.and thus indirectly or through the auX- iliary chambersupplies the carbureter with its oilfor vaporization. The oil is preferably contained in an interior tank, and my pipe system and pump are so combined with such oil-storage tank and carbureter and with the elevated gravity-tank as that I can pump the oil from the storage-tank directly to the gravity-tank or directly to the carbureter or from the carbureter back to the storage-tank or back to the gravity-tank, if desired. The gravity-tank is a convenient means by which a suitable quantity of oil 'can be steadily supplied tothe carbureter when the pumping apparatus is at rest.

My gage-board is intended to furnish the operator with a convenient means of ascertaining the condition of the several apparatuses. The gage with the vertically-moving pointer shows the depth of oil in the carbureter. The gage with the rotating pointer indicates the pressure in the gas-mains. The sight-feed in the pipe which opens from near the bottom of the gravity-tank shows what quantity of oil is being supplied to the carbureter, and the sight-feed glass in connection with the overow-pipe in the top of the gravity-tank shows when the pumping apparatus has sutciently filled the gravity-tank. As previously suggested, the arrangement of the several parts of my apparatus might be greatly altered and some might be dispensed with without depart-ing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim- In a machine for manufacturing gas from oil, the combination of a low-level oil-storage tank, with a high-level oil-tank, a carbureter, a pumpI and connections from the high-level tank to the carbureter and from the pump to the carbureter and the high-level tank, and controlling-valves whereby the oil may flow by gravity from the high-level tank to the carbureter and may be pumped from the carbureter to the high-level tank.

JOHN A. BOWER.

Witnesses:

HOMER L. KRAFT, EDWARD T. WRAY. 

